时间:2018-12-25 作者:英语课 分类:美语怎么说


英语课

  Donny在北京学汉语,他的中国朋友要是遇到了不知道用美语怎么说的词,就会来请教他。今天是琼燕要问的:电灯泡。

QY: Happy Friday, Donny! 你今天晚上有什么计划吗?

Donny: Hmm, not yet. What do you have in mind?

QY: Let's go salsa!! 我今晚要跟两个朋友去跳salsa, 可他们俩是一对,我可真不想夹在中间,当大电灯泡--very bright light bulb!

Donny: I see. You don't want to be the third wheel.

QY: The third wheel?

Donny: Yep! Wheel is spelled w-h-e-e-l. The third wheel, 第三个轮子, it's a very colloquial 1 way of saying a third person joining a couple in a social context 2.

QY: 没错!我就是不想当 the third wheel!

Donny: Exactly, you wouldn't want to bother any love birds, right?

QY: Wait! Love birds? 爱的鸟儿?

Donny:Yep! In English, we often use the word love birds to refer to a couple who are openly affectionate, especially in public. 就是大庭广众之下卿卿我我。你不想打扰这对love birds吧?

QY: 可不是吗!不过这两个人很配!They are a great match!

Donny: Oh that's nice! You can also say, they are a match made in heaven.

QY: A match made in heaven? 那不就是中文里说的天生一对嘛!

Donny: There you go! Since you don't want to be the third wheel, I will go with you! But first, let's see what you learned 3 today!

QY: 第一:电灯泡叫做:the third wheel;

第二,如胶似漆的情侣 ,可以说 love birds;

第三,"天生一对"是,a match made in heaven.



1 colloquial
adj.口语的,会话的
  • It's hard to understand the colloquial idioms of a foreign language.外语里的口头习语很难懂。
  • They have little acquaintance with colloquial English. 他们对英语会话几乎一窍不通。
2 context
n.背景,环境,上下文,语境
  • You can always tell the meaning of a word from its context.你常可以从上下文中猜出词义来。
  • This sentence does not seem to connect with the context.这个句子似乎与上下文脱节。
3 learned
adj.有学问的,博学的;learn的过去式和过去分词
  • He went into a rage when he learned about it.他听到这事后勃然大怒。
  • In this little village,he passed for a learned man.在这个小村子里,他被视为有学问的人。
学英语单词
Advisory Subcommittee on Market Condition
air cooled transformer
ANS (automatic noise suppressor)
antiquarks
antispammers
asbestos roofing felt
assessor of the vice-chanceller
balanced ration
bandpass
besmirch
biocybernetic
boidinia macrospora
bootles
candlepinss
chromidium
close time
coordinate tetrahedron
counteraccuse
country dummy coefficient
crew neckline
Demra
department of industry
dictyonalia
differential unit
dira
dwarf cattle
dysomia
fantasists
Feuerbach, Ludwig
four-way junction
function
Fétékou
glasner
gonging
granuloma malignum
gullop
hackled strick
half through girder
halite structure
hemophilic arthosis
hideboundness
high speed multiply
hold this
holland code
IL-1
Indigofera bungeana
ion-exchange resin catalysts
Italianating
jackson personality inventory-revised (jpi-r)
kompogas
Kéniégué
lower order byte
main condenser air ejector
measure ... against
mihalic
mobile-network
multichannel gamma-ray spectrometer
multistratum comparative panel survey
my heart bleeds for sb
nonclay
nonemployment
o'
obstaculous
occupational and safety hazard organization
oil-gas spring
on the rack
paraspecific
peg-like
plastochron
popularise
presequences
President Harrison
private carrier
process control operating system
prospectin'
purity (of a colour stimulus)
Pushto(o), Pushtu
rated load torque
rebound valve
remaining of bran
renormalized vertex
reprivatizes
resembling rose
return shipping order
rock salts
scientific computing
scientific intelligence
screen of death
semenovich
semienclosed
shadow merge insert
sodium sozoiodolate
SPCUM
spray roasting
stamp dealers
succession mortis causa
supermind
Terrietia trifoliolata
theophorous
three-dimensional geodesy